A question... And some more banners
A couple of posts by people on my f-list, (whose names I won't mention because this is in no way a comment on what they said), have again got me pondering something I've been wondering for a while:
If you have two women in a scene (and those two women are, say, detectives), and they're discussing a man (and that man is, say, a villain, and what they're discussing is how to nail him) does that scene still fail the Bechdel test?
And if, instead, you made the villain a woman, would that be sexist?
...
I have been to the Miro exhibition at Tate Modern, and to one of the BBC Proms concerts! Unfortunately, for reasons I won't go into, it was all so stressful I almost forgot to enjoy it. I have lots of thoughts on Miro, though, which I may even post. But at the moment I'm obsessively re-editing one of my old stories, Shadowland, which has been sitting at the back of my mind, growling, ever since I wrote the damned thing. It's the longest, most ambitious story I've ever written, The Beginning included, and it's not right. And, though no one else will ever re-read it, I can't settle down to write my next story until I'm happy (or happier) with it...
I've made some new banners for it, though, because that's the fun part.
If you have two women in a scene (and those two women are, say, detectives), and they're discussing a man (and that man is, say, a villain, and what they're discussing is how to nail him) does that scene still fail the Bechdel test?
And if, instead, you made the villain a woman, would that be sexist?
...
I have been to the Miro exhibition at Tate Modern, and to one of the BBC Proms concerts! Unfortunately, for reasons I won't go into, it was all so stressful I almost forgot to enjoy it. I have lots of thoughts on Miro, though, which I may even post. But at the moment I'm obsessively re-editing one of my old stories, Shadowland, which has been sitting at the back of my mind, growling, ever since I wrote the damned thing. It's the longest, most ambitious story I've ever written, The Beginning included, and it's not right. And, though no one else will ever re-read it, I can't settle down to write my next story until I'm happy (or happier) with it...
I've made some new banners for it, though, because that's the fun part.